What You Don't Surrender

[leigh57]

Title: What You Don’t Surrender
Author: leigh57
Characters: Jack Bauer, Renee Walker
Summary: Post S7 AU in which Jack and Renee spend some time being Team Awesome.
Warnings: Language, mild violence.
Disclaimer: They’re not mine. Nope. Still not. I checked.
A/N: Under the cut.

Comments

[leigh57]

She might watch Vampire Diaries! Could totally happen.

Oh, thank you. Everybody knows my riff on the heartbreak that was S8, but even beyond the horrible rape and death, we still did not get enough Team Awesome. Just enough to make us remember the amazing before they killed her. *sobs*

Thanks so much for commenting! It means a lot -- I was waffling on whether to even post this, given that so many people seem to have moved on.

[leigh57]

GAH. You can't lose your Renee love! I feel as if I'm pretty much the only person who has Renee love left! In any case, I'm glad if my crazy lack of ability to let these two go helped you rediscover the love of Renee. What show are you watching right now?

Eeep I love badass Renee, too. Well I love Renee period -- who am I kidding?

Thank you:) Your comments always make me smile.

[leigh57]

Ah, Castle! So many people on my f-list adore that show so much -- you're definitely not alone. I suffer from a lamentable loathing for Nathan Fillion, and unfortunately stupid 24 has cured me forever of the "will they or won't they thing," so I can't watch Castle. Woe! However, everybody says that Beckett is awesome and amazing, and I think you're probably onto something when you say that you identify with her more. In the end, that's my Renee problem. She's just like me, if I were . . . tall and gorgeous and had a gun;)

Also, WORD to there being no chance of Beckett dying. Shows that don't crush your soul are lovely, or so I hear? Hee.

Oh icon! dealan311 made me a bunch of .gifs for a meme, and holy hell they're all so amazing I can't even deal! Have another one!

[roseandheather]

Uhm, hah, wha?

Sorry, just had my mind blown by the Rizzoli and Isles season finale, and now this, and I just... huh, bzuh?

Also, my porn. U can readz? Just 500 words! Nonspecific het pairing. Kinda hot. Exercise in "can I make my panties melt in 500 words?" Answer: yes.

Losing language. Over and out.

[leigh57]

Hee! See if you're like me and never watch anything that isn't already over, you won't have these problems. But a totally decent chunk of my f-list loves Rizzoli and Isles.

I'm still struggling with the idea of porn with a nonspecific pairing, but I will totally read. RL has thwacked me hardcore recently, and I'm kind of trying to dig out. I still own you final beta. I fail at life! And then I wind up writing while at work and all kinds of craziness happens. *headdesks*

But you made your own panties melt? Damn.

[roseandheather]

Well, it was written with Lynley/Havers in mind (obvs) but somehow their names never wound up being mentioned, so unless you're in my head, it can be whatever pairing you want. But it totally began as a Lynley/Havers fic, not gonna lie, and that's kind of obvious if you know me thanks to some of the vocabulary.

And yeah, I was kind of like wow when I sat there trembling after I finished writing it. Apparently my muse took over my body and said, "Okay, you silly girl, let me do this for you."

[cybertoothtiger]

Oh, bb.

Holy crap! The action! I could see it. And smell it and hear it, because you always do that. And action is soooooo hard to write.

I loved the contrast between that and the million tiny magnets in her bed, and watching TV.

God, I miss Team Awesome.

*sobs*

P.S. Look! I read and reviewed in the TOP THREE. TOP THREE, MOTHAFUCKA!

Boo-yah.

[leigh57]

When paladin24 gave me that prompt I was all, "Wow REALLY?" Because I don't . . . do action. But I tried, and I'm making this huge effort to use a few alphabet meme prompts to get my brain working again so I can write what I really want to. We'll see how that works;)

God, I miss Team Awesome.

NOT ENOUGH THIS IN THE UNIVERSE.

*sobs and sobs with you* I want them back, you fucking douche bitch writers! Meh. Since that is not going to happen, I shall have to continue expanding my happy place. The fic is therapeutic. As is reading YOURS, I might add:)

And look at you all reviewing like an hour or something after I put this up. Boo-yah indeed!

[cybertoothtiger]

Clearly I have sexual issues with moths.

*head-desks*

It might have something to do with reading The American book, in which George Clooney's character's cover is that of an artist who paints butterflies.

You know, the good thing (if there is one) of having to go AU is that we never again have to specify when on the timeline things happen. They can just be all BAMFy together, suspended in time and space. A veritable vortex of BAMF. Like the Mission at the End of the Universe, or something.

Oh, god. I think I just referenced Milliways.

[leigh57]

I think you DID just reference Milliways. Hehe. But you know? I can't disagree with you. If they were going to off her, at least I got my canonized ship before they cannonized it, which means that all my crazy imagination has even more fodder for six million AUs. Of course I should probably stop writing these two at some point. Meh. I love them. /duh

Um, moths are hot?

[century_fox]

Longer review coming soon, but ZOMG I love this and you did an absolutely amazing job of writing action and GAH I love and miss Jack and Renee so fucking much.

I'm so happy for you that you were able to write!! ♥

[leigh57]

Oh bb I just wanna squeeze you. *snugs you*

I can't lie -- it's not that I love this at all, because you know how I am about my own writing, but holy hell it felt so good to write again! I'm sitting there doing it and thinking, "Um, why don't I do this more often?"

That was a really good story. I give myself an A+. Thank you hon:) You are always the most amazing supporter of my writing and I don't . . . have words at all. *more hugs*

eta: Oh god. To clarify. The A+ was for the story in this comment. Not the STORY. *dies of embarrassment*